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Didn’t this all start from a twitter account with only 74 followers?

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Expected goals prevented: Tom Heaton -3.68 Joe Hart -1.66 Nick Pope +10.66 'Using expected goal data, we can see Pope conceded 10.26 goals fewer than the average keeper facing the same quality of shots. Another stand-out statistic is that he made 52 catches - compared with the three made by Hart an...

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One thing that I went mad about was Mark Wood coming out in all of his gear for the final ball - pads, gloves, helmet. He wasn't on strike and had no chance of being on strike (with two required to win, Eng would have won if they had run on a no ball or wide). He should have come out with the longe...

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Jarrod Bowen + an athletic centre mid and we are sorted

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Wonder if VAR will work in his favour this season? I know everyone jokes about him being offside, but a lot of them are tight calls.

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Ben Mee obviously

Then a toss up between Tarky and Keane. Went for Tarky in the end as he has been excellent for a longer period in the prem

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It’s going to be 30 degrees in Madrid so I’m not sure that’s going to suit Liverpool’s pressing game

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I’ve got a good feeling about our summer dealings. This is a statement

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Let’s not waste time by dealing with WBA ever again should be Mike Rigg’s first remit

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tarkys_ears wrote:Laws, Howe, Dyche.

I don't care where we are at the moment, Dyche's football is the worst to watch.

Hmmm

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1. Laws
2. Howe
3. Cotterill

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I'm not one of these who is clamouring for Vydra to get more minutes all the time, but even I was genuinely baffled as to why Crouch came on ahead of him on Sunday.

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pretty meaningless match, but somehow Arsenal still managed to wind me up. Think it's in their DNA for some reason to be annoying. As for Matteo Guendouzi, what an arse he is

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Big season next year for them.

They have bought a LOT of players in, most who have flopped.

Murray is 37 and can't continue forever.

Hopefully they will self implode

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Good shot stopper, but total refusal to come off his line plus being poor at shots from distance is a bad combo for a keeper in a side such as ours

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Buy a couple of players with real quality that get you out of your seat.

Behind the scenes continue to improve our youth setup and scouting network.

Finish higher than this season.

Have a good cup run

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The group stages format in both Euro competitions. This past week has shown how amazing and exhilarating knock-out football is. Semi finals at Wembley. Diving only being punished when they successfully con a match official. Why not punish all diving? The emergence of shouty shouty pundits such as Ch...

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Really enjoying it so far. It's such a shame it has to end.

Also it's a massive shame that the last 2 seasons have been condensed into 13 episodes, could do with a lot more fleshing out, but I guess they had budget considerations

There is a LOT to fit in in the last two episodes

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Allison

Trent Alexander Arnold
Van Dijk
Laporte
Robertson

Hazard
Maddison
Kante
Mane

Aguero
Sterling

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What is this obsession with playing Vydra?

Our two strikers have a very good conversion rate for this level, and since xmas have been one of the main contributors in keeping us up.

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SD putting the feelers out for Tripps' return

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Saw him warming up during the shooting drill and he absolutely leathered two piledrivers past Pope. So if anything he’s got a good shot on him

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In a way, we needed a season like this one. Last season was great, but i feel complacency set in because of it. What this season has shown is that minor tweaks to the team plus loss of form can result in long win-less runs in this league. It has also shown beyond doubt, that Dyche knows what he is d...

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Either of them will be up against Sane, which could be our weak area of the pitch. I don't envy that job much

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Definitely going / out of contract Walters, Wells, Crouch, Ward (unfortunately) Offer new contract - 1 year - Bardsley Can go if we get a decent offer Hart & Lennon and to a lesser extent Brady and Defour Vydra, I'm not sure about, perhaps he needs a full pre-season? We would then need to sign a...

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At the end of the 1 day series last year in Cricket, the England players celebrated with Champagne while Adil Rashid and Moeen Ali just stood to the side away from it all just for that moment, then they joined in the celebrations afterwards. Not sure why they just can't do that?

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3-0 sheff Utd

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Step forward...Owen Coyle

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Actually lolling at all their big money signings they were giving it the big one with earlier in the season, have turned out to be massive flops.

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The VAR ruling out our goal is a worrying one. If I was reviewing it, I'd work out that Barnes was offside and in the line of the goalkeeper. HOWEVER the trajectory of the ball from Woods head should be taken into account, as there is NO chance he would have saved it if Barnes was there or if he was...

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Jesus Christ. Just watched it. HOW dodgy was Torquay’s equaliser? From a Crewe point of view that is. Never seen that goal before

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Soon summary he should have said “I can’t believe a linesman from 75 yards away had the temerity to see with his eyes, and allow the correct decision to be made”

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Apart from the obvious blip in the derby, he’s usually pretty good for us. Also remember Blackwell before the playoffs coming out in the media moaning that Dean never gives them anything. That backfired in the final. Then this week Colin does the same regarding refs in general. Probably the best ref...

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How can you not see that Gunnarsson pushes him in the back, and if you do see him push him over how can it be a pen? From my POV in the bob lord, the Gunnarson one was an obvious push by the Cardiff player. For some reason, motd never showed it from that angle. If he’d have given a pen for that I’d...

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I think we have a chance against them. Really hope Barnes sticks one on that Greek guy

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Brighton every day. Colin has always been a pantomime villain. Brighton’s fans are the worst

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it's taken longer to build these than both of our new stands in 1995/96!

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JBG, Defour are only on this list due to their injury records.

Brady to a lesser extent, but it might be worth letting him fully recover this summer as his was a bad injury.

I think one of the things we should have learned from this season, is that we can't afford to carry injury prone players.

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Keep at all costs:
McNeil
Westwood
Taylor (his improvement has been staggering)
Heaton & Pope

Like to keep
Tarky
Mee
Barnes
Wood

All the rest can be improved on, even with our limited budget

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Jarrod Bowen is a player we should try for. And hopefully a few gems from Europe

Che Adams would be a good buy.

We need to break the bank for a centre mid to play alongside Westwood, ideally someone with a physical presence.

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Garth Crooks does have the comedy value though. It’s an actual relief when Ince manages to finish a sentence

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Still pretty gobsmacked that our wage bill is so high, and at comparable levels to Brighton and Watford

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cricketfieldclarets wrote:Absolutely agree.

The prize is the goal of our labours.

Arte Et Labore.

stultus puer es!

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After reading 4 pages of this I’m seriously worried about the delusions of some of our so called ‘supporters’ Oh and as soon as you start talking about ‘the product on show’ you are a customer, not a fan, and definitely not a supporter. This premier league lark isn’t meant to be easy you know. Just ...

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Looking at Cardiff’s fixtures, they now play only one game (Chelsea at home) in a month, before playing us. Let’s hope they are undercooked by the time we play them. Then after that they have a fixture pile up. We really ballsed up not even getting a point from the Leicester game, as Cardiff would h...

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If you think the only reason we didn't win was because of a penalty decision, then you need to pay more attention at what's going on. Liverpool, struggling to beat Fulham - soft penalty - win Man City, struggling to beat a championship team, -soft penalty, offside goal - win Burnley, struggling to ...

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the lino on the Bob Lord has a lot to answer for, as from my viewpoint (which is a similar angle to his) you could definitely tell there was contact and he had been clipped. Watching the handball on motd, and it was very similar to the Southampton game. Why one is given and the other not, who knows?...

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you can hit the bar 5 times miss three open goals and have 0 shots on target or you could hit 5 long rangers straight at the keeper and have 5 shots on target.

We created enough to win the game, we just didn’t take them. The soft goals we are conceding is much more of an issue for me

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We have been pretty shafted with penalty decisions this season. Think Cardiff have had a few bad ones as well. What annoys me is that if that was at any of the big 6 at home, Oliver gives that every day, that’s what’s most annoying

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Few points. I wasn’t happy with a few things yesterday,mainly our laboured build up play and two abject performances from our front two. For the most part we did keep spreading the play trying to work the space, however the final ball was lacking. I’m not sure about this bizarre notion of 4 defender...

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